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I just found out that local bassist extraordinaire Rozz Zamorano will be playing a solo bass performance this Thursday night (12.1.05) at the Engine Room, opening for Drop Trio and Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey.
Engine Room is located downtown at 1515 Pease near the Toyota Center. Rozz will be playing a thirty minute set of acoustic […]

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The (International) Noise Conspiracy plays with Danko Jones and Nightmare Of You at Walter’s on Washington on Wednesday night (12.2.05). Also, The Kingsbury Manx and The Standard play Rudyard’s on Wednesday night.
Drop Trio opens for Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey this Thursday night (12.01.05) at the Engine Room. This should be an excellent night of free-form […]

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Lanky plays tonight (Tuesday, 11.22.05) downtown at Clarks (314 Main St.). Showtime is 8:30 p.m. Or, at Fitz’s you can catch The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash and the John Evans Band.
Tomorrow night (Wed. 11.23.05), Continental Club plays host to Tody Castillo, Sleeping Rubys, and Scattered Pages. This will be a great show.
On Saturday night, […]

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This just in:

DJ Drew-B and DJ Chavez (a.k.a. Super Unison) are gonna be spinning records Monday Night at The Proletariat (903 Richmond). It’s gonna be 100% vinyl and 100% crucial. Weird, huh? Expect to hear the best songs ever written, with a focus on the best songs from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, […]

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The show is definitely back on with Gene Loves Jezebel and The Black Math Experiment tonight (Sunday, 11.20.05) at HaVok. In addition to the bands, DJs Naika WhisperWish, Hawz and Phear spin their dark and underground fare.

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NOTE: Tonight’s scheduled My Morning Jacket performance at The Meridian is cancelled. According to the band’s website, there is no plan for a rescheduled date. Were ticket sales poor? The site doesn’t give an explanation.
So, why not come out and see a local band instead?
Tonight at Helios, you can attend The First Annual Discount Halloween […]

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I just read an interesting article about the evolution of advertising and music licensing. Are bands still considered to be “selling out” when they allow their songs to be played in a commercial?
Here’s a snippet:

Cynics might dismiss McCartney’s earlier protests as sour grapes because he didn’t own the rights to Beatles songs and, hence, didn’t […]

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It’s another great week of rock in the Houston area. Not only is former Beatle Paul McCartney in town on Saturday night, Welsh rockers Super Furry Animals play tomorrow (Tuesday) with Canadian experimentalist Caribou (read my interview with Dan Snaith — aka Caribou — from last May here).
On Wednesday, local indie rockers Sitka Sound […]

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I recently have been revisiting some albums from my collection, hoping to write expanded pieces on a few of them. One I have never touched is anything by Jimi Hendrix, feeling I could never do it justice. Plus, after I read Joe Pernice‘s installment in the 33 1/3 book series on The Smiths’ Meat Is […]

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